2026 Time Most Anticipated Books by BIPOC Authors
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Here are you’ll find the most anticipated novels and short stories, eye-opening histories, moving memoirs, and more from Time’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026.
- Fiction, Immigration Fiction, Political Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers’ strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel, Human Mourning. In her...
- by Tom Lin
- Fiction, Science Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
A tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives. When...
- Black Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
An exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of Harlem Trilogy. 1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin...
- by Anand Gopal
- Biographies, Memoir and Biography, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2026
From Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, a mesmerizing and powerful account of six Syrians fighting for a better world, in the tradition of classic works by Philip...
- by Tayari Jones
- Black Fiction, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
An unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy....
- Coming of Age, Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
A young woman whose life becomes ensnared in her glamorous neighbor’s secret past. SPRING, 2007 At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She’s in a long-distance relationship,...
- by Rachel Khong
- Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2026
A brilliant short story collection about love, life, and the anguish of becoming oneself in a time when it’s so easy to be someone else. The characters in My Dear...
- Literary Criticism & Theory, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Publication Year: 2026
An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by award-winning novelist and Harvard professor Namwali Serpell. Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has...
- by Jesmyn Ward
- Demographic Studies, Essays, History, Nonfiction
- Publication Year: 2026
The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair. From...
- Fiction, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2026
It was as though I was chosen—marked out by the python’s kiss for wisdom or maybe sorrow. Or perhaps, I think now, a sense of the ridiculous in extremes of...
- by Ayad Akhtar
- Fiction
- Publication Year: 2026
A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet — a visionary novel of...
- by Ruth Ozeki
- Fiction, Paranormal Fantasy, Short Stories
- Publication Year: 2026
A spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after...
- by Kim Fu
- Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism, Paranormal Fantasy
- Publication Year: 2026
From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century comes The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts—an eerie, spellbinding novel of grief and guilt, with a...